Unlock the power of legacy systems with Apache Kafka

Описание: Legacy systems are the backbone of many organizations, encapsulating years of critical data. Despite the emergence of modern technologies, these systems remain indispensable. Migrating away from them is often not an option due to its complexity. Instead, the focus should be on unlocking the value trapped within these systems.

That’s where Apache Kafka comes in.

Join our webinar to learn:
Data unlocking techniques: discover how to break down data silos and make legacy system data accessible to your teams without disrupting existing operations. We'll cover technologies like Apache Kafka and how they can act as a central hub for data streams.
Implementing data governance and security: once data is accessible, maintaining its integrity and security is crucial. Learn best practices for data governance and security to ensure that your data remains compliant.
Integrating data back into legacy systems: understand the importance of integrating data changes back into legacy systems. We’ll explore how to set up topics and special integrations to process and apply requested changes efficiently.

00:00 Introduction
01:25 How IT landscapes build up over time
02:52 Who uses legacy systems?
05:46 Why are legacy systems still used?
08:53 When are legacy systems becoming troublesome?
09:47 When do systems become legacy?
13:10 The risk of keeping legacy systems and applications
16:00 Strategies for modernizing legacy systems
18:52 The two mechanisms to encapsulate legacy systems
19:17 Events vs APIs
24:48 When to prefer APIs, and when to prefer events
26:42 Examples of legacy systems API calls
27:44 Examples of legacy systems events
28:22 How to emit events from legacy systems
29:17 Expose your business events in 7 steps
35:05 Out of the box connectors supported by Axual
35:25 KSML
36:22 How Axual allows organizations to scale arround Kafka
37:05 Reference case: Eneco
38:33 Reference case: Permanent TSB
39:19 Reference case: PostNL
40:28 Looking to modernize your IT landscape
41:59 Question 1: Can you build this with open source Kafka?
42:10 Question 2: Can Kafka improve the performance of my legacy systems?
44:02 Question 3: Axual platform is Strimzi based, have you worked with environments that were running open source Strimzi before?
45:57 Question 4: Who decides who gets access to which data?
49:03 Question 5: How long on average does it take to get some first data to our systems?